[QUOTE You’re discounting how lucrative the spare parts market is for older airframes.[/QUOTE]
Particularly if your a third world country selling parts and frames to the Qantas 'group'.
I hear that at least for now the 717s are so sought after by the few remaining players that the lease rates have become absurd and the Cobham (Q-link) operated ones have all been purchased off lease as a result with more to follow?
At least MD / Boeing are still in business so I assume support will continue, Fokker however who knows. Plenty of F27s still around I thought so I guess the F100s will outlast my career somewhere